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Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria

‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, International Cinema, Kanopy, movies about movies, movies about theater, SVOD 07/16/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Juliette Binoche plays a veteran actress facing a career transition and Kristen Stewart is her assistant in this beautiful drama from Olivier Assayas.

Édgar Ramírez plays Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, aka Carlos the Jackal, in 'Carlos,' from filmmaker Olivier Assayas

‘Carlos’ – The making of a terrorist superstar on The Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, based on a true story, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, historical, International Cinema, miniseries, spies and espionage, SVOD 04/20/2019 Sean Axmaker

Carlos (2010), Olivier Assayas’ epic account of the life and myth of real-life terrorist Carlos the Jackal, is a mesmerizing portrait of a committed activist who transforms himself into a media-hungry rock star of an international terrorist. Édgar Ramírez plays Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, aka Carlos the Jackal (a name he appropriates from a Fredrick Forsythe […]

Charles Berling and Juliette Binoche star in Olivier Assayas’ touching French drama

‘Summer Hours’ on The Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, International Cinema 10/05/2018 Sean Axmaker

Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours (France, 2008) plays like a miniature, a small film of small dramas in the scope of large lives. Mortality once again hangs over the story of a family estate and the rich treasures of art history that goes with it. Family matriarch Helene (Edith Scob) has preserved the country home of […]